Re: [PATCH] xen/blkfront: speed up purge_persistent_grants()

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Fri Mar 11 2022 - 05:50:54 EST


On 11.03.2022 11:35, Juergen Gross wrote:
> purge_persistent_grants() is scanning the grants list for persistent
> grants being no longer in use by the backend. When having found such a
> grant, it will be set to "invalid" and pushed to the tail of the list.
>
> Instead of pushing it directly to the end of the list, add it first to
> a temporary list, avoiding to scan those entries again in the main
> list traversal. After having finished the scan, append the temporary
> list to the grant list.
>
> Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>